Snow Removal Bid Calculator

This calculator builds a snow removal bid from the ground up, starting with a time estimate: it assumes a plow crew can clear roughly 2,000 square feet per minute, converts your lot size to plowing minutes and then hours, and multiplies by your hourly equipment-and-operator rate to get a per-push price. That 2,000 sq ft/minute throughput is a commercial-plowing rule of thumb — actual clearing speed varies with truck size, obstacles, snow depth, and lot layout, so use it as a starting point and adjust the hourly rate up for tight, obstacle-heavy lots. The seasonal price multiplies the per-push price by your expected number of events for the season, then applies a flat 10% discount to reflect the volume pricing common in seasonal snow contracts (as opposed to pay-per-push billing).

Salt cost is calculated separately and added back in afterward: pounds of salt applied per event times your cost per pound times the number of events, so it isn't touched by the seasonal plowing discount. The total seasonal bid is simply seasonal plowing plus seasonal salt, and price per square foot divides that total by lot size purely as a sanity-check metric for comparing bids across differently sized properties. Because average snowfall per event is captured as an input but not actually used in any calculation here, it's informational context for planning purposes only — it doesn't adjust push time, price, or salt usage, so don't expect changing it to move any of the output numbers.